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More than any other psychology textbook, Don and Sandra Hockenbury’s Psychology relates the science of psychology to the lives of the wide range of students taking the introductory course. Now Psychology returns in a remarkable new edition that shows just how well-attuned the Hockenburys are to the needs of today’s students and instructors.

Psychology began with a basic idea: combine scientific authority with a narrative that engages students and relates to their lives. From decades of experience teaching, the Hockenburys created a book filled with cutting-edge science and real-life stories that draw students of all kinds into the course.

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction and Research
Methods
Prologue: Miracle Magnets?
Introduction: The Origins of Psychology
Contemporary Psychology
Culture and Human Behavior: What Is Cross-Cultural Psychology
The Scientific Method
Critical Thinking: What Is Critical Thinking?
Descriptive Research Methods
Science Versus Pseudoscience: What Is a Pseudoscience?
The Experimental Method
Focus on Neuroscience: Psychological Research Using Brain Imaging
Ethics in Psychological Research
In Focus: Questions About the Use of Animals in Psychological Research
Closing Thoughts
Application: Psychology in the Media: Becoming an
Informed Consumer

Chapter 2 Neuroscience and Behavior
Prologue: Asha’s Story
Introduction: Neuroscience and Behavior
The Neuron: The Basic Unit of Communication
The Nervous System and the Endocrine System: Communication Throughout the Body
A Guided Tour of the Brain
Focus on Neuroscience: Is Runner’s High an
Endorphine Rush?
Science Versus Pseudoscience: Phrenology: The Bumpy Road to Scientific Progress
Focus on Neuroscience: Juggling and Brain Plasticity
In Focus: The Curious Case of Phineas Gage
Specialization in the Cerebral Hemispheres
Critical Thinking: "His" and "Her" Brains Science Versus Pseudoscience: Brain Myths
Closing Thoughts
Application: Pumping Neurons: Maximizing Your Brain’s Potential

Chapter 3 Sensation and Perception
Prologue: Learning to See
Introduction: What Are Sensation and Perception?
Science Versus Pseudoscience: Subliminal
Perception
Vision: From Light to Sight
Focus on Neuroscience: Vision, Experience, and the Brain
Hearing: From Vibration to Sound
The Chemical and Body Senses: Smell, Taste, Touch, and Position
In Focus: Do Pheromones Influence Human Behavior?
Perception
Culture and Human Behavior: Ways of Seeing
Critical Thinking: ESP: Can Perception Occur Without Sensation?
Perceptual Illusions
The Effects of Experience on Perceptual Interpretations
Culture and Human Behavior: Culture and the Müller-Lyer Illusion: The Carpentered-World
Hypothesis
Closing Thoughts
Application: Strategies to Control Pain

Chapter 4 Consciousness and Its Variations
Prologue: Even in Good Men
Introduction: Consciousness: Experiencing the "Private I"
Biological and Environmental "Clocks" That Regulate Consciousness
Sleep
In Focus: What You Really Want to Know About Sleep
Dreams and Mental Activity During Sleep
Focus on Neuroscience: The Dreaming Brain:
Turning REM On and Off
In Focus: What You Really Want to Know About Dreams
Sleep Disorders: Troubled Sleep
Critical Thinking: Could a Person Commit Murder While Asleep?
Hypnosis
Critical Thinking: Is Hypnosis a Special State of Consciousness?
Meditation
Psychoactive Drugs
Focus on Neuroscience: The Addicted Brain:
Diminishing Rewards
Focus on Neuroscience: How Methamphetamines Erode the Brain
Closing Thoughts
Application: "Can’t Sleep? Read THIS!"

Chapter 7 Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
Prologue: The Movie Moment
Introduction: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
Focus on Neuroscience: Seeing Faces and Places in the Mind’s Eye
Solving Problems and Making Decisions
Critical Thinking: The Persistence of Unwarranted Beliefs
Language and Thought
Culture and Human Behavior: The Effect of Language on Perception
Measuring Intelligence
In Focus: Does a High IQ Score Predict Success in Life?
The Nature of Intelligence
Critical Thinking: Neurodiversity and the Autism
Spectrum Disorders
Culture and Human Behavior: Stereotype Threat:
Performing When There’s a "Threat in the Air"
Closing Thoughts
Application: A Workshop on Creativity

Chapter 9 Lifespan Development
Prologue: The Cheerleader and the Skydiver
Introduction: Your Life Story
Genetic Contributions to Your Life Story
Prenatal Development
Development During Infancy and Childhood
Culture and Human Behavior: Where Does the Baby Sleep?
Critical Thinking: The Effects of Child Care on Attachment and Development
Adolescence
Focus on Neuroscience: The Adolescent Brain:
A Work in Progress
Culture and Human Behavior: Conflict Between Adolescents and Their Parents
Adult Development
Late Adulthood and Aging
The Final Chapter: Dying and Death
Closing Thoughts
Application: Raising Psychologically Healthy Children

Chapter 12 Social Psychology
Prologue: The "Homeless" Man
Introduction: What Is Social Psychology?
Person Perception: Forming Impressions of Other People
Focus on Neuroscience: Brain Reward When Making Eye Contact with Attractive People
Attribution: Explaining Behavior
Culture and Human Behavior: Explaining Failure and Murder: Culture and Attributional Biases
The Social Psychology of Attitudes
Understanding Prejudice
Conformity: Following the Crowd
Obedience: Just Following Orders
Critical Thinking: Abuse at Abu Ghraib: Why Do Ordinary People Commit Evil Acts?
Helping Behavior: Coming to the Aid of Strangers The Influence of Groups on Individual Behavior Closing Thoughts
Application: The Persuasion Game

Chapter 13 Stress, Health, and Coping
Prologue: Katie’s Story
Introduction: What Is Stress?
Culture and Human Behavior: The Stress of Adapting to a New Culture
Physical Effects of Stress: The Mind-Body Connection
Focus on Neuroscience: The Mysterious Placebo Effect
Individual Factors That Influence the Response to Stress
Critical Thinking: Do Personality Factors Cause Disease?
In Focus: Providing Effective Social Support
Coping: How People Deal with Stress In Focus: Gender Differences in Responding to Stress: "Tend and Befriend" or "Fight-or-Flight?"
Closing Thoughts
Application: Minimizing the Effects of Stress

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Posted February 24, 2013

Psychology, a revealing textbook

For the beginning psychology students, this is an excellent book. More than that, I found it very revealing. It’s more than just perfunctory methods, chronological histories of the science, or other “how to’s” of the vocation. For this book is an interesting mix of these and professional as well as personal revelations. For example, there were a many occasions that the momentum of studying was interrupted with reflective pause regarding my own life experiences such as: “This is very familiar” or “I remember this.” The Hockenbury’s excellent research reveals many controversies in the science as well. Dr. Sigmund Freud most notably, whose students grew to disagree with his methods. That psychology is an ever evolving and controversial science is emphasized in every chapter. Especially the many “Science versus Pseudoscience” sections that reveals scams such as, memory enhancing herbs and many good-intentioned but false beliefs such as Phrenology. This arms the would-be patient with knowledge to make a better choice; the would-be psychologist or psychiatrist with a necessary foundation of professional ethics; and the student with a rewarding array of knowledge to augment his or hers studying for many subjects especially the memory chapter methods which is a constant work-in-progress for me. My only regret is not reading this book and taking the related course at the beginning of my college education instead of at the end to meet required degree requirements. I highly recommend this for the beginning student (and anyone) no matter what the chosen field. In my opinion this subject/book enriches as well as teaches.

This was only available as a rental for the eBook version from B&N. I have not been able to successfully use the buy option offered at the end of the rental period. I would definitely enjoy owner ship of this title. ISBN-13: 978-1-4292-4367-4

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Psychology, a revealing textbook

For the beginning psychology students, this is an excellent book. More than that, I found it very revealing. It’s more than just perfunctory methods, chronological histories of the science, or other “how to’s” of the vocation. For this book is an interesting mix of these and professional as well as personal revelations. For example, there were a many occasions that the momentum of studying was interrupted with reflective pause regarding my own life experiences such as: “This is very familiar” or “I remember this.” The Hockenbury’s excellent research reveals many controversies in the science as well. Dr. Sigmund Freud most notably, whose students grew to disagree with his methods. That psychology is an ever evolving and controversial science is emphasized in every chapter. Especially the many “Science versus Pseudoscience” sections that reveals scams such as, memory enhancing herbs and many good-intentioned but false beliefs such as Phrenology. This arms the would-be patient with knowledge to make a better choice; the would-be psychologist or psychiatrist with a necessary foundation of professional ethics; and the student with a rewarding array of knowledge to augment his or hers studying for many subjects especially the memory chapter methods which is a constant work-in-progress for me. My only regret is not reading this book and taking the related course at the beginning of my college education instead of at the end to meet required degree requirements. I highly recommend this for the beginning student (and anyone) no matter what the chosen field. In my opinion this subject/book enriches as well as teaches.

This was only available as a rental for the eBook version from B&N. I have not been able to successfully use the buy option offered at the end of the rental period. I would definitely enjoy owner ship of this title. ISBN-13: 978-1-4292-4367-4

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